It's alive! My first breadboard pedal (Small Bear)

[davent]

... I'm still having trouble translating what's on the breadboard with the schematic. If I look at it long enough it'll click.

Once I got smart and started using a breadboard, schematics really became clear to me. If you're not sure how the components on the breadboard relate to the schem, I suggest this: clear out the breadboard, and start from scratch, populating the breadboard as you read the schem. You'll soon figure out how it all relates. Sure, stuff may not work, but that's the joy of the breadboard: it's easy to do and undo and backtrack.

And as others have noted, you can swap out components to see how the sound changes. Be careful, though: that can lead to Mad Scientist Syndrome, where you become consumed with playing with variations and nothing gets off the breadboard and into enclosures.  

Thanks, I'll do this. I'll HAVE to do it, unless all schematics come with step by step breadboard build instructions + photos that nobody told me about

You'll want to take a look at these.

http://www.beavisaudio.com/bboard/projects/
dave

[glops]

Congrats, roswell. I am also happy that this is the way you started. My first actual build was my version of a beavis board. I bought a nice piece of wood that I sanded and stained. Added an aluminum box on top for a switch and jacks with wires going out to terminal strips. I believe I build this in 2009 and still use it to the day. Today I was thinking I would even bread board a Fender Blender when I got home.

But it was great fun building this thing and then getting a circuit to work. Very fun stuff, I miss those old days!

[LightSoundGeometry]

I finally followed the flow and totally understand how this works. I cant move it to vero but i can move it to a perfboard and P2P it which will fine with me

[deadastronaut]

- cropped from an image I took of it to remember the layout. Will get a better shot next time I'm in the workshop.

nasty..

still, now you have a great jostick holder eh..

[roswell]

... I'm still having trouble translating what's on the breadboard with the schematic. If I look at it long enough it'll click.

Once I got smart and started using a breadboard, schematics really became clear to me. If you're not sure how the components on the breadboard relate to the schem, I suggest this: clear out the breadboard, and start from scratch, populating the breadboard as you read the schem. You'll soon figure out how it all relates. Sure, stuff may not work, but that's the joy of the breadboard: it's easy to do and undo and backtrack.

And as others have noted, you can swap out components to see how the sound changes. Be careful, though: that can lead to Mad Scientist Syndrome, where you become consumed with playing with variations and nothing gets off the breadboard and into enclosures.  

Thanks, I'll do this. I'll HAVE to do it, unless all schematics come with step by step breadboard build instructions + photos that nobody told me about

You'll want to take a look at these.

http://www.beavisaudio.com/bboard/projects/
dave

Thank you! Not sure how I missed that with all the research I've been doing.
Mark

[garcho]

Vero can burn in hell. Try busboard: like vero and perf combined with a breadboard.